Talking about the similarities and by that im assuming those similarities are the pitch of the aircraft and the altitude variations that took place and the speed of both flights. The ethiopia flight failed to gain speed, very similarly to the other one. It is an important development. So does this raise more questions about why boeing or the faa or the equivalency abroad didnt ground this airline sooner just as a precaution . Yes. Absolutely. Now, the faa said back earlier in the week when they whether or not grounding there was no data. There was no hard data upon which they had reason to ground. But thats simply not true. The coincidence and similarities alone were reason enough for the british, the germans, the australians, the chinese, the list goes on and on. All these other organizations found the mere similarities alone without further evidencial data to ban the plane. The faa chose in those circumstances to take a purely data driven approach. And they boasted about it in their announcements. Well, there will be those who will say, no, they should have taken a common sense approach and there was sufficient evidence for many reputable organizations to ban and to ground the planes and the faa should have been more open to the prospect of the similarity. Making way for the use negligence might be used in any kind of legal challenges that might be upcoming. You dont think so . I wouldnt say i would not necessarily say negligence because they have a duty. Its arguably i think just common sense. It is difficult to understand why the faa was so stubborn in sticking to their position when everybody else was saying the opposite. That of course will be the issue. We shall see. All right. Richard guest, thank you so much. Turning now to politics, the white house is doing damage control after President Trumps response to the massacre in new zealand. 50 people murdered by a man promoting White National ideas. President trump still claiming the threat from White Nationalism is not on the rise. Now his acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney coming to the president s defense. The president is absolutely briefed on all of the threats, most domestic and international. But i want to push back against this idea that every time something bad happens everywhere around the world, folks that dont like donald trump seem to blame it on donald trump. To the degree there is an issue with White Nationalists, antibigotry in this country, and there is an issue like that, why not deliver a speech condemning it. You have seen the president stand up for liberties. The president is not a white supremacist. Im not sure how many times we have to say that. All of this happening while the president s focus, according to his twitter feed, is somewhere else. Hes taking aim at the late senator john mccain just months after his death for his ties to the controversial russian dossier on trump and mccains notably thumbs done vote on repealing obamacare. Boris chan sasanchez with me no. It is remarkable that the acting chief of staff feels he needs to explicitly say the president is not a white supremacist. Yeah, fred. And mulvaney was clearly annoyed by the question. It is one that has frequently plagued the white house. The criticism the president is receiving for the massacre in new zealand is for two reasons. First the president said he did not believe that White Supremacy was a growing problem around the world when there is in fact evidence to the contrary. And secondly, the president did not condemn islama phobia by name. Many felt his condemnation didnt go far enough and some believe the president should use his platform to really drive the idea of tolerance around the world. Listen. There is real data and information currently right now of the rise of White Supremacy right here in this United States of america. He needs to look at the data and information and the facts and actually listen and understand the tremendous responsibility he has in being our president , our leader of our country. He cannot just say it is a small group of people. There is too many deaths. Not only from the synagogue to the black churches to the temples and now the mosques. We need to be stepping up against this, and it has to start with him. The white house has pushed back previously saying that the president s response was adequate. Just for perspective, though, i do want to point out the president has tweeted about the attack in new zealand twice. In contrast, hes tweeted out three times today about a fox news host who got in trouble last week for some of her rhetoric about islam. Fred . And then, boris, whats behind the president going after the late senator john mccain on twitter today . Right. Well john mccain was one of the First Americans to look at the steele dossier, that salacious compilation of information, some of which has been verified, that was collected during the 2016 election. The president frequently refers to it. He claims the russia investigation was launched because of this dossier, which is debatable at the very least. But the president went after john mccain. Mccain has denied he shared that with journalists. But we recently learned that one of his aids had shared it with buzzfeed news. Thats something that some stay is a stain on his legacy, including ken starr. He said that he didnt have anything to do with passing on the dossier to the fbi. And yet now we know he did. Deeply disappointing. Well, well see. Thats what the evidence shows. You know, i want to keep saying dont rush to judgment, but thats what the evidence has to show and im just saying im very, very saddened by this. But john mccain was an American Hero who did so much for the country, but this is unfortunately a very dark stain. Well, the president , who has previously said that john mccain is not a war hero, took the opportunity to revisit this old spat between the two of them. He tweeted, quote, spreading the fake and totally discredited dossier is unfortunately a very dark stain against john mccain. He then goes on to say this. He had far worse stains than this, including thumbs down on repeal and replace after years of campaigning to repeal and replace. The president still upset about john mccain voted against a thin repeal and replace that republicans tried to put out a couple years ago. Here is what megan mccain, the daughter of the late senator tweeted out. He writes, quote, no one will ever love you the way they loved my father. I wish i had been given more saturdays with him. Maybe spend yours with your family instead of on twitter obsessing over mine. It is clear even after the late senator passed away seven months ago, he still harbors some resentment toward the senator from arizona. Thank you so much. All right. Lets talk further on this. Joining me right now, former Communications Director for ted cruz, and former director. Alice, why doesnt the president speak for himself . Why have the acting chief of staff go out, as he did today, trying to explain . Its not unusual to have chief of staff and members of your cabinet go out and speak. The problem is any time you are on defense, you are losing. And unfortunately thats what it appears happened today. I think its important, though, to really take note of what mulvaney did say. Look, it is quite clear in this instance and many other times we have terrorist attacks or terrorist incidents, there are two people responsible for these vicious acts of violence, the purpo perpetrator and the devil. Its not asking the president who is responsible, but asking the president to elaborate further on his sentiment that he doesnt agree with the rise in national in White Nationalism. Hes disputing, you know, the facts, the statistics, the data. And, you know, his chief of staff instead of answering the question about why the president doesnt take and use his platform as, you know, the worlds most powerful leader that instead, you know, he is unwilling to show that kind of compassion or, you know, he is just not going far enough. Right. I believe there is going to be people that are critics of this president and many on the left that say that the president can never do enough. He can never say the right thing, can never hit the right tone when it comes to a situation like this. Lets be clear, the president has offered his thoughts and prayers to the people of new zealand. He has spoken with the Prime Minister. He has offered u. S. Aid in any way, shape or form that we can provide to them. He has denounced an omission to show sympathy to the Muslim Community. Look, as i said, the president has denounced acts of hate. He has denounced words that are racist, that are insensitive time and time again. And oftentimes it is simply not enough. I think the president has made it quite clear where he stands on this. Mulvaney reiterated those positions today. If and when the president may need to speak up further and there was some talk about possibility giving a speech directed just on this, if the president feels thats necessary, im sure he will do so. But right now all we can certainly do is offer our prayers and sympathy and any aid we can. So, tim, as a president ial historian, is the criticism fair . The president doesnt seem to go, you know, far enough. He stopped short when especially when there are instances relating to hate, racism, you know, xenophobia. I think they are two different but complimentary issues. The first is the president s vision of the Trumpist Party is a Big Tent Party that seems to include people, not necessarily i would hope would not go and kill but the kind of people who would respond to some of the ideas in the manifesto that the new zealand shooter issued. So there is that problem. And really you want to ask yourself, should the Republican Party include under its tent those kinds of people and those kinds of ideas. The second issue is the president uses rhetoric as president of the United States that makes islamaphobia more tolerable. He discredit it is muslim religion by sending messages that less sensitive and stable minds might see as triggers. He has an international obligation. We used to be a moral leader. We were flawed, yes. But the president of the United States has an enormous platform. We used to use it to talk about human rights. Right now we have a president who is sending signals that could be interpreted by unstable minds as somehow leg mating islamaphobia. Thats what this president has to talk about. Hes not responsible for the deaths in new zealand, but he could help clarify the environment. By having his chief of staff do that on his behalf. Chief of staff is not enough for that. He has to do it. Listen to what this congresswoman said on cnn this morning about her colleague. The first thing that i pause and think to myself is it because shes a black american and shes muslim . Thats where i pause and say to myself, is there an issue here . I guess our mere presence there, the fact that now there is not only one but now three Muslim American serving in congress that our mere presence will be able to possibly break down any of these kinds of racialized, you know, opinions, this kind of islamaphobia i feel is present on both sides of the aisle. I think my colleagues are not seeing that as an attack as just saying we have a lot of work to do. Alice, she has said that she has received a lot of Death Threats. Omar has received a lot of Death Threats, particularly in this climate right now. So does she make a strong point in your view that there should be more leadership, you know, coming from the white house particularly on this issue . Look, i think we are in a climate and in a time in our nation where the rhetoric needs to be toned down across the board. We need to be more sympathetic to people. Does it begin with the presidency . Does it begin with this president . That is the question. The tone of the political discourse, yes, fred, it starts at the top, and it should trickle down. But that being said, this president , in my view, is doing what he can in this specific situation to show sympathy in this most recent situation. I am encouraged by the fact that we do have more muslims represented in washington and in hearing their viewpoints and hearing their needs is important. But unfortunately, they are not the only ones that are targets of attacks. There are republicans and conservatives and democrats, people from all walks of life and all political persuasions and all faith that are unfortunately targets of Death Threats because of the heightened rhetoric in this country. That across the board needs to be stopped. Isnt that the challenge . Isnt the white house and the president being challenged with the responsibility . Is it incumbent upon him to help set the tone to help redirect where there is this bubbling up of sentiments being displayed in different ways leading to Death Threats, et cetera, that there is an expectation that the president should help calm people down, send a strong message, and is that happening, alice, right now from the president . We can all work on this together. Look, ill be the first one to say that there is a lot of words and phrases and rhetoric that this president used that i have been on your program many times and said that i have a problem with. But at the end of the day, yes, he can certainly begin the conversation. But its incumbent upon all of us to engage in a more peaceful tone and rhetoric that can help address a lot of these issues. Real quick, tim, only because i see you shaking your head. No. I think the president is using these tropes and its the president who should be changing the climate. He is the one who started this. His campaign was based on dehumanizing people, migrants and immigrants. He is the one who has given rise to a level of rhetoric that we havent seen from a president or president ial candidate before. He could dial it back. Of course, on the left the left can dial back certain things. But lets not forget where this started and who is now in the oval office. He has enormous power. He should use it. Well leave it there. Thanks so much to both of you. Appreciate it. Thanks, fred. Still ahead in the news room. Im the most progressive record of anybody running for the United States of anybody who would run. [ applause ] for Anyone Running for anyone who would run. Did joe biden accidentally reveal his plans to run for the white house . The verbal gaffe that drew massive cheers straight ahead. In 1969, engineers put a man on the moon with Technology Less powerful than any smartphone. I became an engineer because of them. Now im at verizon building a powerful 5g experience for america. 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